Koi Suru Top Lady

[Wm. Penn, Daily Yomiuri, January 25, 2002]: Miki Nakatani plays the estranged 25-year-old daughter of the mayor of a small town in Kanagawa Prefecture. When dad dies, she comes home and is quickly talked into running for his now empty seat. His former handlers want a front for their lucrative political machinations, while her dad's former bodyguard, played by Toshiro Yanagiba, has her best interests at heart. This one has definite possibilities, but political dramas are notoriously hard to sell to a public which gets its fill of politics watching the real politicians on the wide shows.

[FUJI TV Synopsis]: One day, a young woman, with no real dreams or no real sense of commitment to her community suddenly becomes Mayor of her city. The heroine of this story, Chiharu Orihara is 25. After graduating from high school, she moves to Tokyo, and works at several companies along the way, but never sticks around too long. While searching for a full-time job through the local unemployment office, Chiharu continues doing just part-time work, which helps her to get by without any problems. She is popular with the guys, but doesn't have a boyfriend, and isn't that interested in getting married. To sum it up, Chiharu is just your ordinary modern girl, that just lives one day at a time. Although her father is the Mayor of her city, he and Chiharu have a very distant relationship because they don't see eye-to-eye. As a result of her father's death, Chiharu finds herself as the next person in line to become Mayor of Tatehama City. Being the owner of a personality that doesn't allow to be anything but honest with herself, Chiharu doesn't take much to being the puppet of those at city hall. She discovers things that even an ordinary citizen can do for their city, and this helps her to grow as a person. Although she does stumble along the way, Chiharu becomes a good Mayor, one that people can be proud of. The idea of a young woman becoming Mayor is comical, but at the same time, the idea of tearing apart the "old" ways that city hall is run by, is something that any ordinary citizen dreams of doing. Although she's Mayor, she's still a young woman that is only in her 20's. Let's sit back and watch as she falls in love. Will she be able to become happy like the other women around her???

STARRING: Nakatani Miki, Yanagiba Toshiro, Okina Megumi, Yoshizawa Yuu, Yamaguchi Sayaka, Ono Takehiko, Takahashi Katsumi, Matsuzaki Shigeru, Uehara Misa
THEME SONG: "HERO" by Enrique Eglesias
NETWORK: FUJI TV
DURATION: January through March 2002
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